how to redirect search engine result to new smf directory?

[fairx]

hi there good people

I used to install SMF in subdir in a subdomain ie

http://silverian.myfairx.com/smf

coz I need to integrate with mkportal

however I found tinyportal (nice) and found no need to use a subdir anymore so I change reinstall everything back to http://silverian.myfairx.com (bad move ..)

however, search engine already listing the old /smf dir ie. "silverian.myfairx.com/smf/index.php?board=8.0"

the question is; How do I setup my /smf dir so every query is redirected to main index.php ?

every help is appreciated

thanks in advance guys!

edit*

this is the example of my problem:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=silverian&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&vst=0&vs=silverian.myfairx.com&fr=FP-tab-web-t&b=11

[Fizzy]

How about using .htaccess?

Something like

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Redirect /smf http://silverian.myfairx.com/  [R=301,L]

[MH-MINI]

Or if your host has cPanel, you could use the redirect function in there.

Mini

[fairx]

thanks for all the suggestions guys..

the .htaccess redirection works like a charms..! 

thanks a lot!!  

I'm happy now..

I'm curious though.. what

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[R=301,L]

is for?

[Fizzy]

It's a tag for search engines. It tells them that the page has been moved and that they shouldn't try to keep indexing it.
The search engine spiders will be able to trawl your new url config and soon load up all of the new urls

[fairx]

thanks for the explaination!

fix 2 problem at the same time!